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Old World, New World

I hosted a beer tasting a couple months back where one of the beer was Fuller’s IPA. I find it is a quality English-style IPA. We can debate where it ranks in the style, but I think there is no… Continue Reading →

2015/03/25

Paths to Craft, Part Three

To close out 2014 my Beer 101 column at the Sherbrooke Liquor website took a look at how to transition non-craft beer friends into the vast world of craft beer. The first couple installments (here and here) looked at the… Continue Reading →

2015/01/05

Next Steps to Craft

Last month I started a series with my Beer 101 column looking at how to introduce newly beer-interested people to the range of craft beer flavours. The first part (whch you can read here) took those initial baby steps with… Continue Reading →

2014/11/28

Testing Aging Effects, Gonzo Edition

You gotta love the folks at Yukon Brewing! I am amazed at how willing they can be to accommodate my crazy beer experiments. They have facilitated a number of my efforts to explore how beer changes and morphs under different… Continue Reading →

2014/11/05

Baby Steps to Craft

When I do beer education sessions, I frequently make an effort to find out what beer the students/clients currently drink. I subsequently craft my choices based upon where they are, finding beer that will edge them into the big, broad… Continue Reading →

2014/10/22

A “State of The Cask” Address

It has been four-and-a-half years (May 2010) since Edmonton got its first cask night, which was at the Sugar Bowl (see article here). The first few events were high energy, anticipated and joyful. They were something a beer geek made… Continue Reading →

2014/10/07

Rising from the Dead

My most recent Beer 101 column arises from a pub session where, by chance, I found myself drinking only beer whose styles were at one time considered either extinct or restricted to a very narrow local population. The coincidence led… Continue Reading →

2014/10/01

The Hassles of Naming Beer

Over the years I have spilled much cyber-ink over the issue of styles and the misappropriation of style names. I know I am not alone in my frustration at the confusion created by Alexander Keith’s and other such marketing misdirections…. Continue Reading →

2014/09/25

Jake vs. Jake

Regular readers of onbeer.org will know that I have over the years been exploring the taste differences between keg and bottle (and can). It has been an interesting journey without any firm or solid conclusions so far. You can read… Continue Reading →

2014/07/24

More Transitions

A few weeks ago, Planet S/Prairie Dog asked me to look at good beer for transitioning away from macro beer to craft beer. The first installment of that series ran a couple weeks ago (see the post about it here)…. Continue Reading →

2014/06/23